August 31, 2011

Notting Hill Carnival 2011

Here's a funny thing: as much as I enjoy taking photographs, so much so that I don't mind taking on all sorts of inconveniences to get the shots I want, I've never really been able to muster much enthusiasm about actually promoting my work once it's done. Rationally speaking, I understand the absurdity of this - I do want the pictures to be seen as widely as possible, and yet I operate as if I expect the work to promote itself - but what is interesting (from a psychological perspective, at least) is that understanding the irrationality of my behavior does nothing to overcome the inertia which precipitates it.

At any rate, on this occasion I'm not going to let my torpor win out, as I think the pictures I obtained this time around are some of the very best I've ever taken (slideshow here). Hopefully you'll agree.

Comments

Given that I witnessed the advent of your "photojournalist" online persona, I must say that I am delighted. The leaps in picture quality have grown. A relationship between being a math wiz and having and an eye for form and structure, perhaps. Or angle. I certainly hope your psychological condition here has nothing to do with being coy or being cool. Brilliant pictures.